Tamil Nadu offers 3.5 times the market value of land for new Chennai airport
The Tamil Nadu government on Friday offered three-and-a-half times the market value for acquiring land in Parandur for building Chennai’s new greenfield airport, besides an alternate land for relocation and a job for one member of each family affected by the project.
The government made the offer to the people of 13 villages in and around Parandur, 65 km from here, in Kanchipuram district off the Chennai-Bengaluru National Highway after they protested against the proposed airport in their villages. Political parties like PMK, VCK, and Naam Tamizhar Katchi have held consultations with people to elicit their opinion on construction of the greenfield airport outside Chennai to meet the needs of ever-growing air passengers.
